Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

Chicago's privatization mania began during Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration, which ran from 1989 to 2011. Under his successor, Rahm Emanuel, the trend has continued apace. For Rahm's investment banker buddies, the trend has been a boon. For citizens? Not so much.

Larry Lindsey

Majority Leader Daschle misspoke this morning when he said the Bush administration would dip into Social Security and Medicare funds. The truth, in fact, is that Social Security dollars will be used only for Social Security and Medicare dollars will be used only for Medicare. The only reason for any decline in revenue is due to an economic slowdown that began last September.

Wally Snyder

Life began to really mean something to those kids.

Bill Bradley

Look we have taken action, but you know racial profiling practically began in New Jersey, Senator Bradley.

Gene Nudo

Let's face it, it was a struggle. When we lost our first three games, we began to wonder if we were going to win. I believe we've turned the corner.

Hiroko Koyama

Many of these were the first pieces my mother began collecting. One of the most precious is an 11th-century glazed black tea bowl with rainbow colored spots.

Peter Cardillo

Many retail investors were in panic mode, however many of them slowly began to come back to the marketplace as the cloud of uncertainty began to lift.

Jim Turner

Many winter visitors began coming here because of the train.

Yasser Arafat

So here we extend our hand to you in reconciliation, and we extend the olive branch to resume the path that we began in Madrid and Oslo,

Richard Rogers

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life.

Rick Perlstein

When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it's best not to care too much.

Richard P. Feynman

I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions.

Robert Palmer

Anything by Gonzalez Rubalcaba is unbelievable. I've been listening to the best of Django Reinhardt.

Robert Wilson

I think by drawing, so I'll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gesture. I understand things best when they're in graphics, not words.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility.

Malcolm McDowell

You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.

Mike Schneider

We're not diminishing his role at quarterback at all; we're just trying to enhance his role within the offense because he's one of our best athletes.

Daryl Manning

We're not best of friends. We're neighbors that talk to each other, that feel comfortable around each other. We both went away with the same thing - lets take a look at this and see how this can work out.

Francis Bacon

My essays . . . come home, to men's business, and bosoms.

William Blum

Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire.

Krystal Long

I was going to go to an out-of-state university and needed funding for it. This sounded like a lot more fun than writing an essay for scholarship money.

Sharon Olds

There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.

Reed Kroloff

Peter's essay on matter-of-factedness sucked big time but how can you not love Peter. He's such a sweet boy.

Sebastian Coe

At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who handed in essays on British Airways notepaper.

Diane Davis

We were very pleased with all the entries, but the top essays really seemed to have an outstanding quality to them.

Samuel Johnson

I found you essay to be good and original. However, the part that was original was not good and the part that was good was not original.

Steven Heighton

I had a book of essays out in 1997 in which I talked about the increasing virtuality of our lives. I've always been afraid of that in my own life.

Zen Saying

Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung.

Jim Carrey

Second year in a row -- what's going on here, man? ... I'm the establishment I once rejected. ... I'm the Tom Hanks of the Golden Globes.

Paul Merrick

Momentum traders will not want to sell -- if this month's trajectory continues, then gold will be at $568 by year-end and $649 by the end of February.

Rob Hammond

My lip will hurt but the gold medal is there forever.

Patti Brooks

One Olympics in person is enough in my lifetime, thank you. They're not going to get any better than they were in Lake Placid (where Herb's team won the gold medal).

Bible Bible

Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.

Bible Bible

Of a talent of pure gold made he it, and all the vessels thereof.

David Williams

Maybe it's just the old golden rule: Treat someone else the way you'd like to be treated.

Tom Rasmussen

When heights increase, you are making gold for owners of the property. The question is: How much of that gold will be shared with the public?

Paul Hubbert

Obviously that 51 percent, judging on what has happened, were right.

Dennis Prager

I don't judge people by their theology, I judge them by their behavior

Dennis Hastert

Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges.

Debra Winger

I have a thing with the camera. The lens is unconditional. It doesn't judge you.

Eliphas Levi

Judge not; speak hardly at all; love and act.

Deepak Chopra

A fixed habit is supported by old, well-worn pathways in the brain. When you make conscious choices to change a habit, you create new pathways. At the same time, you strengthen the decision-making function of the cerebral cortex while diminishing the grip of the lower, instinctual brain. So without judging your habit, whether it feels like a good one or a bad one, take time to break the routine, automatic response that habit imposes.

Deepak Chopra

If you want to reach a state of Bliss - make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved and the need to judge.

Deepak Chopra

Don't judge yourself; simply return your attention to what's in front of you right now.

Aaron Hill

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Gracie Gold

Now that I have an Olympic medal in my room, it makes me hungry for another and a different color one.

Simon Clegg

The problem is you can't predict where that medal will come from. You have to make that investment.

Donna Thompson

The quality of the wines is excellent, and many individuals have won medals for the wines produced from kits.

Magdalena Neuner

I haven't let the gold medal out of my sight; it sleeps next to me in bed.

Kirsty Balfour

To get a medal in a world record race is just fantastic.

Kim Yuna

I've been dreaming of winning gold medal in the Olympics.

Michaela Dorfmeister

Today, I won the first medal for Austria. This time we are favorites.

Svetlana Zhurova

He is now with my sister and I have been away for too long. So this medal is for him. For my little boy.

Daron Rahlves

I think we should've been able to medal in every event. What Ted did was awesome. He pretty much saved our butts.

Natasha Hamilton

I love anything quiz related.

John Tortorella

You can tell James Duthie to shove that quiz. I have a few other words I can tell you about the quiz.

Gaston Gaudio

He was serving unbelievably and I couldn't do too much.

Bob Woods

We always want to work on our serving and serve-receiving.

Clarence Fountain

And when you are serving the Lord, you go where he takes you without fear.

Richard Feinberg

If you're not serving the customer, you better be serving someone who is serving the customer.

Stephen East

They're serving a need much more than a want than say a Toll or a higher-end builder.

Mary Thomason

This is a strong serving team and we have height. But not just height, there's talent there. We should be strong.

Alan McCoy

This is not chest-thumping. This is not done to intimidate. It is about serving our customers." ()

Caroline Norton

They serve God well, who serve his creatures.

Leonardo da Vinci

I am never weary of being useful... In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Kristy McNichol

I say to my mother all the time, 'You're the child.' And she says, 'Yeah, you're the mother.' I've been that way with her since I was 11.

Peter Murray

More is going on now than at any time since the Victorians.

Mark Brunell

Obviously, it's been a long time since he's been in the playoffs, but he is used to winning in the playoffs.

Tyler Bolick

Basically, salaries have stayed the same since I started.

William Petty

I make this question, whether, since they do all live by begging... it were not better for the state to keep them.

Roberto Galvan

I have been here since Sunday. We are waiting for the blow.

Michelle Post

She's been working it since October. She wanted to throw it a lot earlier.

Kathy Connolly

She's been here since 5 a.m. this morning.

Gene Luen Yang

'Shadow Hero' was my first superhero story. I don't know why it took so long.

Trey Parker

I've started confiding in people, other artists mostly, that I hate making 'South Park,' and I always have. It's super stressful. I'm always miserable.

Tyra Banks

If I tried to start modeling right now, I wouldn't be a supermodel because it's all about celebrity.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.

Bill Maher

Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation.

Bill Bixby

Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.

Charlotte Ross

I don't see myself becoming a superhero.

Beverly Johnson

Once a Supermodel, always a Supermodel.

Edward Gibbon

I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition.

Del Ruiter

Luckily, Lord's will, we won and we're going to Canton and they're not.

Charles Spurgeon

None but God would ever have thought of justifying me. I am a wonder to myself.

Charles Spurgeon

It was God's word that made us; is it any wonder that His word should sustain us?

Eileen Caddy

Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now.

Dave Mustaine

Penelope Spheeris is a wonderful lady.

Chris Lowery

We've never done this. We've always been on eggshells wondering if we were going to get in or not.

Brian Cashman

If we had won today, we'd be going to New York.

Bill Young

If we'd had everyone, I think we could have won it.

Josh Groban

I got to play a real D-bag lawyer, and comb my hair really awfully and kiss Emma Stone, so it was a really wonderful day on set.